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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19135, 2 October 1936, Page 4

Hatched out three seasons ago as a hen pheasant and now proudly displaying the full plumage of a cock bird, a pheasant which changed its sex is an object of interest to visitors to the Hawke'a Bay Acclimatisation Society's hatcheries at Greenmeadows.

Under the proposed new traffic regulations of the Government it is suggested that "no person shall operate a motor vehicle having fixed thereto a mascot or fitting in a position where it is likely to strike any person with whom the vehicle may collide, unless the mascot or lifting is such that it is not liable to cause' i'njury by reason of anj projection thereon." "A lot of them will have to come off," stated Mr. 0. W. Merry lees, when the summary of the proposed regulations was before the, Dannevirke Borough Council.

Evidently the remark by the Mayor of Wellington some time ago to the effect that "the women of New Zealand cannot cook" is still ranking in the minds of many. The subject was the cause of some comment at the annual meeting of the Wellington Y.W.C.A.. when the success of the cafeteria, to which members give service, was discussed, also the interest taken in the cookery classes by the Business Girls' Lyceum. The chairman remarked : "The Y.W.O.A. is doing a good deal to remove tiie stigma placed on the women of this country by the controversy aroused in the papers over the Mayor's remarks." His words' wero greeted with applause.